Character and Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Comic Fiction

Klappentext Examines the kind of consciousness central to comic novels of the 18th century. The author asserts that it is individual identity conceived in social terms - a character's search for his or her place in a precarious social order. Zusammenfassung In readings of five novels—Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Charlotte Lennox’s Female Quixote, Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, Tobias Smollett’s Peregrine Pickle, and Fanny Burney’s Cecilia—Kraft explores the relationships among consciousness, character, and comic narrative.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Kraft
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.1992
• EAN: 9780820313658
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-1365-8
• No. of pages: 216
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies